Chapter 528: Sky Demon’s Avatar (1/2)
[V6C58 – Sorrow of a Silent Parting]
The item Bai Kongzhao had tossed out was a silver can. After it was cut open, a shower of milky-white fluid rushed out amidst a dense surge of daybreak origin power. Upon closer inspection, it was actually liquid mithril, and its concentration wasn’t low at all.
The vampire viscount was fast to react, but he couldn’t open his eyes at the moment. He was drenched from head to toe, and his body immediately burst into flames, his flesh corroded in large patches. This time, he was truly crying out in misery.
After being pushed away, Eden had been sitting with his back against the stone wall and watching with folded arms. At this moment, he opened his mouth and blew out a wisp of black energy. The viscount was still rolling about on the ground, but the black energy shot straight into where his blood core was. It immediately burnt a large hole amidst sizzling sounds and penetrated all the way to his back—the blood core was naturally decimated in the process. That was a trump card Eden had kept until the very end.
Eden’s aura withered a fair bit after shooting out the black energy. He glanced at Bai Kongzhao and said with a wry laugh, “You’re Bai Kongzhao, I assume. Curse it, I never expected to meet you in the end. If you’re going to kill me, then make it fast because you won’t be getting any information out of yours truly. If you torture me, then I’ll simply end my own life.”
Bai Kongzhao didn’t move at all after throwing that silver can. She gazed blankly at the viscount with those ethereal eyes until Eden spoke to her. Only then did she ask incredulously, “Am I that terrifying?”
“What do you think?” Eden replied.
Bai Kongzhao pondered for a moment, then nodded. “Makes sense I guess, everyone around me seems to be apprehensive. Why didn’t you use that last attack on me? Do you really hate him more than you hate me?”
Eden broke into a laugh. “Sometimes, racial enmity leaves a deeper impression than factional differences.”
Bai Kongzhao nodded seriously as though she had understood. “But why do I get the feeling that you used it on him because you thought it wouldn’t work on me?”
“I knew I can’t hide it.” A flash of astonishment emerged in Eden’s eyes as he admitted with a laugh.
Bai Kongzhao thought about it for a while. She then walked over to rummage through the viscount’s badly damaged body and found a drop of origin blood. Afterward, she dragged her shockingly large backpack over, fished out a couple of decorated bronze boxes, and tossed everything to Eden.
Eden’s expression froze. He was no stranger to the patterns on the boxes because all of them belonged to the major demonkin clans and families. Naturally, they contained the best of demonkin medicines within them. This time, even the well-composed Eden revealed an astonished expression, but he only pondered for a while before swallowing the origin blood and medicines.
The demonkin medicines were indeed extremely effective. Moments later, Eden’s complexion regained some of its color, and the charred crust on his right hand crumbled after a few movements. He glanced over at Bai Kongzhao and asked, “What do you want?”
“I want the ancient essence fragment. You’ll help me.”
Eden said after some thought, “I can only say I’ll try my best.”
“Fair enough.”
Eden was somewhat puzzled after seeing Bai Kongzhao’s clear-cut actions. “Aren’t you afraid that I’ll turn hostile after I recover and kill you immediately? With these medicines and some time, I’ll quickly recover most of my strength.”
Bai Kongzhao wore an innocent expression, but her reply made Eden feel an uncontrollable chill. “You can do that, but you won’t be able to kill me. And as long as I survive, I’ll haunt you forever,” she paused for a moment, then said with a naive tone of voice, “and you’re not that dumb.”
Eden laughed. “It is indeed so. Very well, I agree to help you. There’s no need to swear an oath to my totem.”
Bai Kongzhao pointed to the large back full of weapons behind her and said, “Take your pick and help me carry it later on.”
Eden opened the bag and found a large variety of weapons within—his eyelids twitched briefly at the sheer numbers. Just how many people had died in the hands of this innocent-looking little demon? He broke into a frown after noticing that most of them were characteristic demonkin weapons and couldn’t help but glance up at Bai Kongzhao. The latter looked back at him with her head tilted, her eyes just as dreamy and ethereal.
The two silently gazed at each other for a good while before Eden lowered his head to continue his inspection. Moments later, he had a double-barreled handgun in his grasp as he hoisted the bag and walked over toward a certain tunnel. Bai Kongzhao followed from behind. Her frail, specter-like figure gave one the feeling that she had been miserable and lonely since birth.
It was the last leg of the journey.
Experts from all sides were already close to the deepest parts of the underground world, and danger levels were at their peak. The last part of this journey was apparently going to be dark and long.
Qianye stood up slowly beside an arachne corpse. This spider was huge and one could tell at a glance that he was fairly powerful, but he had died in Qianye’s hands nonetheless. In this underground cavern, the arachne’s massive build that was made to raise their fighting power became a hindrance instead.